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sabirah -> RE: To all members on collarme.com (3/23/2008 12:33:47 PM)
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greetings SteelofUtah,
I found if rather refreshing, and far from being misanthropic.
Many, perhaps most, Pagan religions in the Mediterranean area had a major seasonal day of religious celebration at or following the Spring Equinox. Cybele, the Phrygian fertility goddess, had a fictional consort who was believed to have been born via a virgin birth. He was Attis, who was believed to have died and been resurrected each year during the period MAR-22 to MAR-25. "About 200 B.C. mystery cults began to appear in Rome just as they had earlier in Greece. Most notable was the Cybele cult centered on Vatican hill ...Associated with the Cybele cult was that of her lover, Attis (the older Tammuz, Osiris, Dionysus, or Orpheus under a new name). He was a god of ever-reviving vegetation. Born of a virgin, he died and was reborn annually. The festival began as a day of blood on Black Friday and culminated after three days in a day of rejoicing over the resurrection." 3
Wherever Christian worship of Jesus and Pagan worship of Attis were active in the same geographical area in ancient times, Christians "used to celebrate the death and resurrection of Jesus on the same date; and pagans and Christians used to quarrel bitterly about which of their gods was the true prototype and which the imitation."
Many religious historians believe that the death and resurrection legends were first associated with Attis, many centuries before the birth of Jesus. They were simply grafted onto stories of Jesus' life in order to make Christian theology more acceptable to Pagans. Others suggest that many of the events in Jesus' life that were recorded in the gospels were lifted from the life of Krishna, the second person of the Hindu Trinity. Ancient Christians had an alternative explanation; they claimed that Satan had created counterfeit deities in advance of the coming of Christ in order to confuse humanity. 4 Modern-day Christians generally regard the Attis legend as being a Pagan myth of little value. They regard Jesus' death and resurrection account as being true, and unrelated to the earlier tradition.
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ORIGINAL: SteelofUtah
Yes Happy Paganistic Holliday disguised as the Resurection of Christ day.
Gotta love what Painting Chicken Fetuses has to do with the Lord Christ, or how the whole Giant Bunny who commits B&E and then hides the aforementioned colored chicken fetuses in easily visable places has to do with the resurection of christ but whatever.
Anyway nealy all our holidays with Christian Overtones are actualy Pagan Hollidays that Christians coat tailed for the past 2000 years, or more like 1600 but there is no need for making a fuss over dates.
Happy Paganistic Hollidays disguised to make Christians Happy Day.
(Was that Cynical?)
Steel
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